The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-29
Farm and Stock Notes.

Ihere are many pigs so Stunted while
young that they are not worth taking as a
gift with the condition that they must be
kept year, when thrifty young pigs can be
purchased at reasonable prices. A stunted
pig will show his failing to a critical eye and
no good farmer need be deceived into pur
chasing one.
MIR. Albaugh, well known in Ohio horti-
culture, says that one grower sowed oats
among his grapes every spring to prevent
rot and considered it a success. Mr.. Miller,
OF Ohio, sowed copperas-about one pound
to square robin his vineyard early in the
summer and again later. No rot has APP
peared since this treatment.
Wherever young turnips are sown the
ground should be kept loose by frequent
stirring with the hoe. This not only keeps
down weeds but destroys the fly that eats
the tender leaf. 1t is the dust that fills its
breathing holes and thus suffocates it. In
a wet time. when there is no dust, lime,
gypsum or wood ashes answer the same
purpose.
AS fast as green sweet corn is picked the
stalks should be given to cows. They are
sweeter than those of ordinary corn, and
with the ears make a very rich feed. They
pay to grow for this purpose alone and many
farmers SOW sweet corn for soiling, claiming
that its greater sweetness makes up for de-
ticiency in quantity as compared with the
larger kinds.
The mortality among young chickens in
hot weather is chiefly due to lice. A very
little insect powder busted among the feath-
ers ON neck, head, back and side win kill all
vermin, The chicken after the operation
shakes itself thoroughly, thus busting its
entire body. Lice at this season leave old
fowls for the tender chick, which they soon
kill if left alone.
Vo11or ,o;,re Slo,,1J /,o,o,,alI,, I1o Lea $50
ringed. What roofing they will do will be
more beneficial than otherwise. Old hogs
sometimes develop a taste for the bark of
apple roots and may do damage. They will
almost certainly impure the trees by throw
ing up hog wallows, alternately with ridges,
covering some roots too deeply and leaving
some exposed to freezing or to be drenched
by water settling in the hollows.
The value of stable dung, says Prof
Wyatt. must not be estimated upon its ac-
tual richness in ammonia or physphoric acid
within a short period of its production, but
must be calculated on its wonderful physi-
cal and chemical action on the elements of
the soil and the air, and upon its merits as
a vehicle or conductor into which complet-
ing quantities of outside substances can be
introduced, decomposed and rapidly made
available.
Hay properly cooked will sustain very
slight injury by remaining out through
storm. The cocks should be made high and
small at the base, pressing the hay down
firmly and evenly, and trim neatly. With
the side of the foot knock the hay around
the base well under, SO that the water will
shed directly on to the ground. Should
there be sign of rain when the hay shall
have been out over one night, double the
cocks, rake the scatterings and trim neatly.
The difficulty of curing fodder corn in its
immature state, says an exchange tempts
many farmers into permitting it to become
too ripe before cutting The stage of flow
ering is considered the best time to cut other
forage crops. and corn appears to be no ex
ceptiOn. The rule very generally observed
among experienced growers is to cut fodder
corn for drying in the early blossom of the
taSsel. At whatever stage the fodder is
harvested it is wise to have the crop cut
before being touched by frost.
This is good advice by Duncan's Maya
zine: Swine feeding can be made safe and
certain by following the practices which
experience has demonstrated to be trust
worthy and not otherwise. Crowding
corn, and nothing but corn, into hogs
of slaughter is unnatural and unreasonable,
and many are following that plan every year
to their terrible cost and to the great detri
ment of the constitution and healthfulness
generally of American swine
In many sections where little or no honey
is being gathered robbing may be expected
and should be guarded against. If you have
weak or queenless colonies break them up
and remove the hives to safe place. Do
not expose honey where the bees can get at
it or it will demorahze your whole apiary.
1t is wonderful how soon bees discover that
honey can be had and how persistent they
are. l have sometimes thought that bees
would work ten times harder dixie human
beings to steal than to get it by honest toll
keep all hives SO strong that it is almost sure
death for robber to enter.